{"id":13785,"date":"2021-01-26T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:22:24","slug":"pogo-tax-payments-rise-11-7-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pogo-tax-payments-rise-11-7-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"POGO tax payments rise 11.7% in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>POGOs brought in US$149.4m in tax payments las year despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting departures of many firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- Tax payments from Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) increased by 11.71 per cent year-on-year in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philstar reports that the Bureau of Internal Revenue&#8217;s (BIR) tax collection from POGOs reached <strong>Php7.18bn (US$149.4m) <\/strong>despite the <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/warnings-on-economic-impact-of-pogo-exodus\" target=\"_blank\">POGOs exiting the country<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong> following the introduction of restrictions after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>POGOs paid just Php2.36bn (US$49.1m) in 2018 and Php6.43bn (US$133.8m) in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAGCOR<\/span>)<\/em><\/strong> there are currently <strong>51 licenced operators<\/strong> in the Philippines. There were more than 60 before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 34 were <em><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/only-15-out-of-over-60-pogos-are-operating\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">allowed to resume operations<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em> to comply with Covid-19 prevention protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 131 local gaming agents and service providers have secured authority to resume operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POGOs brought in US$149.4m in tax payments las year despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting departures of many firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Despite significant POGO departures and operational restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue reported an 11.71% year-on-year increase in tax collections from POGOs, reaching US$149.4 million in 2020. This growth occurred amidst a reduction in licensed operators from over 60 to 51, with only 34 permitted to resume full operations.","focusai_entities":"Bureau of Internal Revenue, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, Philstar","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Tax Revenue Drivers","query":"What specific factors contributed to the year-on-year increase in POGO tax payments despite a reduction in the number of active operators and pandemic-related operational constraints?"},{"label":"Future Regulatory Outlook","query":"How might the Philippine government's regulatory framework and enforcement strategies evolve to balance tax revenue generation with operational stability and compliance for the remaining POGOs and their service providers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,158,16333],"tags":[23907,405,15789],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-pagcor","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010517,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/777010517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}